Cotton material - 2 pieces - Specimen details

Cotton material - 2 pieces - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73231

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Plant Name 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium sp Entry Book Number 162.1856
Artefact Name Cotton material - 2 pieces Vernacular Name
Iso Country Nigeria TDWG Region Nigeria
Parts Held Cotton material - 2 pieces Geography Description Nigeria, Africa, West Tropical Africa
Uses Cotton material - 2 piecesUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
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Notes: Cotton from lower part of the Tsadda or Binne. Raw cotton from Ojogo, about 120 miles above the confluence. Specimens of native cloth, one plain blue made in Domo, and the other in Igbira, one is mixed cotton and grass, and one narrow strip shows a red, dye, there scarce and valuable. Large shiny piece is the one from Domo. Specimens from Nigeria, examined by Colleen Triger on 3.7.1986 for her forthcoming publication. She identified it as part of the accession on page 168 of 27.Dec 1856 in Entry Book.

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